How will the states react to the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act? Cato Institute Constitutional Studies Director Roger Pilon joins the News Hub to discuss.

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... the the ... how will the state's response of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal defense of my that's ... what the appeal on is the director of the Cajun Institute Center for constitutional studies and he joins me now from Washington thank you very much so ... on ... you you you are observing ball went home this morning aam did you get a B and so ... night you expected that based on what you all in all it's glorious ... we got to about three quarters of what we wanted ... and it was pretty much what we expected ... justice Kennedy we sorta thought would be the ... key figure in this ... not least because he wrote the Lawrence v Texas decision ... and at that time ... the descent signaled its fear ... that this would lead to ... the same sex marriage issue as indeed it has ... this opinion that came down today ... I can be Argo my case on the News Ltd told The that the issue ... but ... the implications are older for the future because ... it a rest not simply ... on federalism principles ... but on equal protection principles as well ... and those are going to ... play out ... in the states that still have ... a marriage defined as between a man and woman ... I met a man ... does present some issues summit for proponents of Dalton eyes to different to what the White House wants to see ... I'd day to day manage to afford what some puddles again of the batter into the rolling at this hour across the country ... well it did in his are the descent ... chief Justice Roberts tries mightily ... to have in the opinion of fun ... of it ... justice Kennedy ... on and in fact it is an open question whether so much of what justice Kennedy says is Victor that is to say isn't the holding of the case ... on what is peripheral to add ... my own sense is that this is addictive that will have legs ... as we go along ... because what you're going to get ... almost immediately I predict ... his challenges and several other states ... and it turns out ... that the equal protection principle ... that is there in the fourteenth amendment ... is if anything even stronger than the equal protection ... that was available to the court today ... in the fifth amendment ... and we saw in fact be the battered ... by case for this as a wall of precedent for this process ... is the laughing verve v Virginia case of nineteen sixty seven whereby the court found that ... on the Virginia statute ... that criminalized on Mr. ... interracial marriages was unconstitutional ... on equal protection grounds seems that those same arguments are going to apply ... as cases are brought in other states ... it didn't applied today ... in the California case ... the prop eight case ... because that had some special standing issues ... that precluded import ... from reaching that the issue even though one senses the justice Kennedy didn't want to reach it in that case is well ... done ... interesting stuff and historic say thank you Brian much ... of what John Pilon ... off with a seven session we appreciate time so ... long ...